Mark M.

## BIO **Educational History** * MS Computer Science fall 1998-fall 2000 University of Montana GPA 4.0/4.0 Missoula, Montana * Computer Science fall 1996-spring 1998 University of Iowa GPA 3.8/4.0 Iowa City, Iowa * BS Forestry 1991-1996 Iowa State University GPA 3.5/4.0 Ames, Iowa **SUN CERTIFIED JAVA PROGRAMMER 1.4    :<img src= "http://mypage.iu.edu/~mmangric/JavaSmall.gif" width="100" height= "100" /> Publications:** * IJCAI 2001: Comparison Of Modern Image Classification Techniques, October 12, 2001 * INTERMOUNTAIN JOURNAL OF SCIENCES: Rapid Extraction Of Objects From Digital Images Vol. 5, No. 1-4 - December 1999 **Academic Honors / Achievements** * Volunteer Student of the Year Award 2000 * 4th place ACM Rocky Mountain Programming Contest 1999 * Member Xi Sigma Pi Honors Society 1993-1996 * Department Graduation Certificate of Recognition 1996 * Forest Products Society Book Award 1994-1995 * FPS Student Membership Award 1994-1995 * Dean's List (ISU) 1991-1995 * J. Milton Cone Memorial Scholarship 1993-1994 * Freshman Research Award--Dr. Hall, ISU 1991-1992 * * * **Current Employment** | Lead Application Developer | July 2001-Current | | The Center for the Study of Institutions, Populations, and Environmental Change | | 408 North Indiana | Supervisor: Julie England | | | Bloomington, Indiana 47408 | <u>Duties, Skills, Abilities:</u> Directing application development, systems analysis, and database administration strategies to develop, implement, and maintain internal (client/server) and external (internet) metadata database projects. In the course of project development, lead project planning, formulation of objectives, and acted as facilitator between research units on behalf of the metadata database projects. Currently, designing and developing sophisticated multi-tier, multi-concurrent-user software systems; integrating new database and data access technologies including xml; design and develop web implementations through web browsers, prepare technical documentation, and provides training at all levels. Presented project status to the National Science Foundation Review Board **Previous Employment** | Senior Programmer/Developer | January 2001-July 2001 | | Visual Learning Systems | Stuart Blundell | <u>Duties, Skills, Abilities:</u> Managing the software development team, solving technical C/C++ code development problems, integrating full software lifecycle development, and release, writing technical documents/patents. I lead a team of four to design, develop, and code an advanced commercial of the shelf object specific feature extraction tool. <u>Product:</u> ESRI Awarded "Most Innovative Solution" award. See press release at ESRI, [login to view URL] The Feature Analyst extension for ArcView GIS integrates machine learning technology into the GIS database creation and maintenance workflow process. This product is currently a commercial of the shelf software package. [login to view URL] ## Area of Expertise JDBC, ODBC, XML, Servlets/JSP, Machine Learning, Computation, Algorithms, Computer Image Processing, High Speed Detection in Digital Images, Forestry Remote Sensing, Geographical Information Systems, Image Data Management, and Satellite Image Processing.